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Herbal Fen-Phen (Ephedra) Study on Adverse Effects

July 9th, 2009. By AbiK

herbalfenphen Herbal Fen Phen (Ephedra) Study on Adverse Effects There’s an interesting study on Ephedra—aka herbal fen-phen—called “The RelativeSafety of Ephedra Compared with Other Herbal Products” by S. Bent, TN Tiedt, MC Odden and MG Shlipak. It was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (3/18/03, volume138, pp. 468-471).

In the study, the researchers looked at the number of adverse effects reported to US poison control centers during 2001. Keep in mind, the study is now a few years old as Ephedra has been banned since 2004. But the study was conducted during the time in which Ephedra was still riding high in popularity as a diet supplement.

The results of the study showed:

Products containing ephedra accounted for 64% of all reportedadverse effects from herbs even though they represented lessthan 1% of total herbal product sales. The risk for an adverseeffect from ephedra compared with other commonly used herbalproducts was very high. For example, relative risks for adverseeffects from ephedra were 100 times greater than from kava andas much as 700 times greater than from Ginkgo biloba. Typesand severity of adverse effects were not described.

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